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Agreed. I did have driver problems with an NVidia card that was supposed to be compatible with Seven. I finally got another card and problems were solved. It may not have been the drivers; it may have been the card itself, although Windows reported the card was fine.

Agreed. I did have driver problems with an NVidia card that was supposed to be compatible with Seven. I finally got another card and problems were solved. It may not have been the drivers; it may have been the card itself, although Windows reported the card was fine.

Maybe it's just me, but at this point running Windows 7 x86 just seems unecessary.

Perhaps for you it's unnecessary. However on my work laptop, I have to run the CheckPoint Secure Connect VPN client to connect to work and it absolutely, positively does not run under 64-bit. So, 32-bit is very necessary for me.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jonathan_King

The truth is x64 uses more resources, and has a lot more problems, especially driver issues.

Unless I have 4GB or more of RAM, I install the 32-bit version. I don't see any sense risking BSODs, using more resources, and having the few incompatible programs when I only have 2GB.

Jonathan, I agree that with 4GB or less of RAM, I still recommend the 32-bit version for most people. You will always find a 32-bit driver for your hardware, but 64-bit can still be hit or miss. And while the big name 64-bit players like Nvidia or Radeon have solid drivers, some of the other 64-bit drivers just aren't all that great for the more obscure hardware that a lot of us have.

I haven't had issues with drivers on my home desktop running the 64-bit version of 7, but that box has 8GB of RAM to support multiple virtual machines so using a 64-bit system was a requirement there.

So the software is older along with the hardware? Hmmm, interesting decision.

Yeah, a lot of this network equipment can be extremely expensive...so when purchased it's usually used for a number of years before you can justify the replacement of the equipment. Unfortunately, we are not near the point where we can justify a hardware replacement to support a few 64-bit systems.

Agreed. I did have driver problems with an NVidia card that was supposed to be compatible with Seven. I finally got another card and problems were solved. It may not have been the drivers; it may have been the card itself, although Windows reported the card was fine.

That may be hardware. You could have run Furmark to stress the card.

You are right; but I ran out of patience and time. I needed my 'puter up and running - and it was an excuse to upgrade.

32bit better then 64?

Pro 32bit key, on Pro 64HP shipped my laptop with the wrong version of Windows. Rather than go through the pain of sending it back to them to get it refunded I wanted to know one quick thing:
The back of the laptop has a key that says "PRO OA" followed by the key.
If I use the key on the back, can I just install...

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Still freezing up with 7077 32bit/7100 32bitno matter what i try no matter what i do disable in bios or w/e it still freezes and i cant be the only one w/ this issue. can Any one help?
my specs are in my profile yes their being done as clean installs
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by odd chance i found out why i was freezing. it was my Netgear WG311T...